15 Feb
2012
15 Feb
'12
7:08 p.m.
On Wednesday 15 February 2012 20:34:57 Serghei Amelian
wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> For what reason "ksocketdevice.h" have been renamed
> to "ksockssocketdevice.h" ? Looking strange and redundant.
That is a mistake and should be corrected.
Actually, I find the entire process of renaming useless, inconsistent and
frustrating. Now I should remember to link to tdecore-shared and
kio-shared.
One prefixed by "t", another by "k".
The same thing, tqtinterface. One more layer, which do not add any value
to
code. Just force me to remeber every time to prefix qt clases with TQ and
pollute namespace.
For these reasons, few times I considered to join to Ilya's project,
because
is more conservative. After all, we are using a fork of a KDE3 because we
are
conservative, right?
--
Serghei.
Without renaming TDE must always exist in /opt on a system with Qt4, KDE4,
or any KDE4 applications, and will never be able to be incorporated into
any major distribution's main archives as a result. Furthermore, we have
received explicit requests for some of the renaming from the original
project's authors, and as I am not a lawyer I do not want legal trouble
from using a name that belongs to a different project. Additionally, it
can be very confusing to have libraries with identical names and
completely different functionality; e.g. kdecore (TDE) vs. kdecore (KDE4).
I know it can be a pain; I have put an Etherpad up that details exactly
what has been renamed to try to make it a bit more bearable.
Tim